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Who can watch your kids?

There are several kinds of babysitters. According to your family, the age and the needs of your children, certain types of babysitters will be better adapted to your situation. A quick overview seems necessary for you to determine the kind of care you want for your children.

What is a babysitter?

Behind the term babysitter can hide many different people: students, or retired persons, girl or boy, young or older, there really is every kind! 
A babysitter is simply someone to whom you can entrust your children in your absence.

Of course you understand a babysitter does not sit around doing nothing, it's rather the opposite! She or he usually has to run in all directions after the children. Maybe we should have called them "babyrunners"  

Which type of babysitter for which need?

 Naturally the first instinct is often to asks the grandparents. And we don't say it enough, but even if they often spoil our children, they're usually the best babysitters ever!  

Nevertheless, when they're not there, you have to find them or a replacement!

Middle or high school students

Whether they are in middle or high school, teenage babysitters are perfectly capable of taking care of your children when you go out in the evening or after school. They are perfect for these small occasional contracts.

College students

College or university students who spend a little less time in class can take care of your children after-school and on school holidays. They are perfectly capable of taking care of children for a full day and can do some cooking. They often have a driving license, which may be needed to take your little one to his judo training.

Boys: excellent babysitters!

Do not put aside male babysitters who are also able to manage children. Sometimes they are even more serious in terms of their safety and overflowing with imagination to distract them. Kids love them!

Grandpa-sitters and granny-sitters, senior nannies!

The new method of care of the decade, granny sitters. They make themselves available to families to assist parents in their tasks. Their experience and high availability make them babysitters of choice. They're able to replace a parent in all tasks related to children, regardless of their ages.

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